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tocene map shows especially the simultaneous glaciation of ))oih north- 
ern and southern regions, modified in the north by sinking of the old 
Arctic continent beneath the sea-level. 
'1 he supposed ancient continents of Lemuria, Atlantis, the Brazil- 
African land bridge, etc., are regarded either as proposed on insufficient 
data or outside the limits of this series. , 
In general it has been found possible to consider the true ocean bas- 
ins (limited by the 1000- foot contour) as permanent through Tertiary 
time. The union of Antarctica with Australia and South America is an 
exception to this rule, iiut is based on a large amount of evidence. It ap" 
pears probable also that the disturbed belt which stretches through 
central Europe to south-central Asia, and ends perhaps in the East In- 
dian islands, has been, in part, raised from abyssal depths to an equally 
stupendous hight above the sea, since the beginning of the Tertiary. 
Discussion. — Professor Osborn empnasized the value of these maps 
as expressing working hypotheses for the use of students of vertebrate 
palaeontology. 
Dr. Julien called attention to the evidences of glaciation in South 
Africa as having a bearing upon the question of a previous existence of 
land masses further south. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, Secretary. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Kentucky Geological Survey has been revived. The 
Legislattire has appropriated $15,000 dollars per year for two 
years. C. J. Norwood will act as director, with a corps of as- 
sistant geologists. 
Geological Society of Washington. At the meeting of 
February 24th the following program was presented : "The 
study of minerals in the laboratory,'' Arthur L. Day ; "Oil fields 
of Alaska," George C. Martin. At the meeting of March 9th 
the following program was presented : "The occurrence of 
extra moral nic pebbles in Western Pennsylvania." Lester H. 
Woolsey ; "Fossil floras of the Yukon," Frank H. Knowlton ; 
"Glacial erosion in western New York." Marius R. Campbell. 
E. J. Chapman, for many years professor of mineralogy 
and geology at Toronto Universitv. died recently at Hampton. 
England. He was born in Kent. England, February 21, 1821, 
and in his early years followed a military career, serving in the 
foreign legion of the French army in the Algerian campaign. 
He afterwards studied engineering in England under I. K. 
Brunei, and some years later was appointed to the chair of niin- 
